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Student protests in Bangladesh over the state's job quota system have led to violent crackdowns, but the movement still has life, writes M. Niaz Asadullah.
Around one million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 16 people were killed as a cyclone hits the coastal districts of Bangladesh
Officials also advised nearly 33,000 Rohingya refugees, moved from camps to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Trapped in inhumane camps and unable to return to their homes, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are the victims of state violence and increasingly hostile conditions from the country that once welcomed them so openly, writes Tasnima Uddin.
Bangladesh has entered a new era, celebrating independence from Hasina's regime. Its future now rests in the hands of its students, writes Shamim Chowdhury.
US climate envoy John Kerry will travel to the UAE, India and Bangladesh ahead of next month's climate summit hosted by Washington.
Comment: Bangladesh is enlisting Saudi Arabia's help to help counter militant Islam, but the Gulf kingdom has yet to end to its own multiple ultra-conservative practices, writes James M. Dorsey.
Comment: Members of the Rohingya ethnic group who have already fled to Bangladesh are refugees, and should be recognised as such, writes paediatrician John Kahler.
In northern Syria, where the aftershocks of the earthquake compound the devastation of war, humanitarian interventions are a lifeline, writes Imran Ahmed.